- these elusive forest-dwellers are in many ways similar to the domestic tabby, which is probably descended from them. They are larger than the domestic cat, with stubby tails, but, although the wild cat is monogamous, there has been interbreeding with unscrupulous domestic cats, which means that there is increasing hybridisation except in the most remote areas. You are certainly not going to see one such as Sir Gilbert Hay describes in The Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour (1460):
Thare wyld cattis ar grete as wolffis ar With ougly ene and tuskis fer scherpare
[There wild cats are as big as wolves are with ugly eyes and tusks far sharper].